Yaqub

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Yaqub: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Yaqub: Recorded every year since 1997, its highest recorded position is #336, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#336highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Boys

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#1761
1998	#2074
1999	#2943
2000	#1425
2001	#1949
2002	#1519
2003	#1629
2004	#1038
2005	#1135
2006	#885
2007	#799
2008	#916
2009	#737
2010	#706
2011	#626
2012	#640
2013	#546
2014	#495
2015	#526
2016	#521
2017	#454
2018	#446
2019	#414
2020	#456
2021	#392
2022	#342
2023	#377
2024	#336

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #1761 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #336 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #336 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Yaqub by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Yaqub in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	3 of 10	5
2000s	199	10 of 10	20
2010s	729	10 of 10	73
2020sbusiest	561	5 of 10	112

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 112 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 25, from 86 to 111.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Yaqub appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #336 in England and Wales in 2024.

Yaqub's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#336	130	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#377	108	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#342	126	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#392	111	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#456	86	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#414	102	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#446	92	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#454	91	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#521	75	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#526	73	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#495	79	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#546	66	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#640	54	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#626	54	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#706	43	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#737	40	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#916	29	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#799	33	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#885	27	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1135	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1038	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #336, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 130 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
28 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#336position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
130births registered in its largest year, 2024100 to 199 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Yaqoob · #1398, 25y
Yaqoub · #1492, 15y
Yara · #328, 30y
Yaran · #2706, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aaminah · #338, 29y
Briony · #334, 29y
Eirill · #332, 31y
Yuvraj · #341, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alaina · #336, 30y
Susie · #336, 30y
Abd · #337, 28y
Camron · #335, 28y

Yaqub was ranked #336 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Yaqub and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Yaqub without appearing here.

Yaqub moved ahead of

Rune Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2943 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1038 and #3651.
Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1519 and #3225.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1519 and #3225.
Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1135 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #885 and #2538.

Moved ahead of Yaqub

Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2074 and #924.
Cooper Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2074 and #1110.
Filip Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1038 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1135 and #615.
Cillian Compare
In 2014 they stood at #495 and #550 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #526 and #404.

Moved the opposite way to Yaqub

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yaqub went from #1761 to #336 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yaqub went from #1761 to #336 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yaqub went from #1761 to #336 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yaqub went from #1761 to #336 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Yaqub

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yaqub went from #1761 to #336 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yaqub went from #1761 to #336 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yaqub went from #1761 to #336 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Yaqub went from #1761 to #336 and Archie from #141 to #10.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #336 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Yaqub at a glance

What the data shows

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Yaqub by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Yaqub at a glance

Yaqub by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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